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...jumps: a short one to the Cape Verde Islands where it remained nearly a week; a long and creditable one (1,400 mi.) to Fernando Noronha Island, 200 mi. off the Brazilian mainland: and an easy hop to Natal, strategic point for many a transatlantic flight. Besides Capt. Friedrich Christiansen the DO-X carried twelve persons, including the Portuguese Admiral Gago Coutinho...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Aeronautics: DO-X at Last | 6/15/1931 | See Source »

...proud mammoth was a sorry grotesque sight. One wing, stripped of its covering, stretched its blackened framework upward at a crazy angle. The other, now unbalanced, dipped its weight into the sea. The hull was blackened, much of the interior flooded. Said Captain Friedrich Christiansen, returning from his shore visit, "It's hard luck, but our ocean trip will not be called off. It is only delayed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: AERONAUTICS: Hapless DO-X | 12/8/1930 | See Source »

Minnesota's renomination of blind Republican Senator Thomas David Schall, instead of a nomination for Governor Theodore Christiansen, terminated a campaign almost without issues. Senator Schall will face Einar Hoidale, unopposed Democrat, and Ernest Lundeen, Farm Laborite, in the elections, unless Minnesota Democrats get Lundeen to withdraw, uniting the minority parties...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: National Affairs: Makings of the 72nd (Cont.) | 6/30/1930 | See Source »

...June primaries he will face Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen for the Republican Senatorial nomination. He alienated a large part of the Minnesota rural press by charging in the Senate that its editors were controlled by "big Eastern influences," because they disagreed with him on the tariff...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters: Apr. 14, 1930 | 4/14/1930 | See Source »

...appointed Maj. General Creed ¶ Hammond to succeed him. Also appointed was Robert Ridgeway, Chief Engineer of the New York Board of Transportation, as a U. S. delegate to the World Engineering Congress in Tokyo next October. ¶ A caller at the White House: Minnesota's Governor Theodore Christiansen. His message to President Hoover: The northwest is dissatisfied with the tariff bill, will make trouble at the polls unless husbandry is accorded better protection (see p. 12). ¶ When the Hoovers moved into the White House, the East Room was wired for talking cinema. Two nights a week sound...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: THE PRESIDENCY: Blue | 7/22/1929 | See Source »

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